Quotation

The Caged Virgin

An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
Later on I stayed in a refugee camp on the border between Somalia and Kenya. I saw how women who had been raped during the war were abandoned. And I asked myself, If God exists, why does He allow this? It was forbidden to think such thoughts, let alone speak them, but my belief was crumbling. Nonetheless I continued to call myself a Muslim. September 11 was a decisive turning point, but it was not until six months later, after I had read "The Atheist Manifesto" by Herman Philipse, that I dared to admit to others that I no longer believed.......I thought a manifesto was a declaration of the devil. I could feel an inner resistance. But recently I felt ready. The time had come. I saw that God was an invention and that subjection to His will meant nothing more than subjecting yourself to the willpower of the strongest.